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WSA On Display 2020

WSA On Display 2020

  • Part I – BSc
    • Year 3
      • Unit 01: Alternative Arrangements
      • Unit 02: The Frontier Town
      • Unit 03: Freshwater and Limits
      • Unit 04: The Productive City
      • Unit 05: Reconfiguring Public Space
      • Unit 06: Blitz
      • Unit 07: Rural
      • Unit 08: Love For One’s Own Home
      • Unit 09: Let the Tide do the Work: A Peoples Palace
      • Unit 10: Grow
      • Unit 11: Archiving Place
      • Unit 12: Zen Dojo
    • Year 2
      • Butetown: Library And Third Space
      • City Centre: School Of Design
      • City Road: Youth Centre
      • Llandaff: Fine Art Gallery
      • Penarth: Respite Centre
      • Pontypridd: Performance Space
    • Year 1
      • Within
      • Beyond
    • Vertical Studio
  • Part II – M.Arch
    • M. Arch Year 2
      • XI Infrastructure Urbanism
      • XII Value
      • XIII Liveable Urbanism
      • XIV Environmental Imagination
      • XIX Growing Structures
      • XV Local Adaptation
      • XVI Craft
      • XVII Verticality
      • XVIII 1.5 degrees
      • XX Designing Histories
    • M. Arch Year I
      • Design in Practice
      • Reflective Practice
  • Masters Programmes
    • MA Architectural Design
      • Unit A – EMUVE Palermo 2020 refugees and migrants
      • Unit B – Synergetic landscapes
      • Unit C – Circular landscapes
      • Unit D – Questioning the Ambivalence of Urban Commons
      • Design Workshops
      • MA AD Lecture Series
    • MA Urban Design
      • Gentrification: Cardiff
      • Community: East London
      • Learning at MA UD
    • MSc Computational Methods in Architecture
    • MSc Sustainable Building Conservation
      • About the course
      • Part A – Whitchurch Hospital Studies
      • Part B – Whitchurch Hospital Proposals
    • MSc Environmental Design of Buildings
    • MSc Sustainable Mega Buildings
      • About the Course
      • Sustainable Service Systems for Mega Buildings
      • Sustainable-Mega Buildings Design
  • PhD/M.Phil Research
    • International Research Community
  • The Curation Process

MSc Environmental Design of Buildings

Aims to help students gain knowledge and expertise to specialise in the design of comfortable and healthy environments in and around buildings, appropriate to climate and with due regard to sustainable issues.

Student views:

“I got a lot of professional knowledge from the EDB section even I have 5 years of work experiment in this area. I was trained to be a better sustainable consultant. I think what I get in the EDB section will help me a lot after I go back to China and work in a sustainable building area.
I like the Environmental Design Application module. The Skydome is really cool.”

Bian Liu

“I am grateful and proud to be part of the EDB 2019-20 batch. It made me a better human by making me conscious of the importance of sustainability issues. This course has helped me to gain knowledge in designing comfortable spaces with ethical environmental practises. I believe modules like Climate comfort and energy (CCE),Environmental Design Practise (EDP), Passive Design provides the students with great skillsets to tackle sustainability issues. I am sure EDB at the Welsh School of Architecture is one among the most relevant courses available today.”
Merin Dencil

“So glad to have embarked on this course. With everything going on in the world it’s been thrilling to develop knowledge on topics so relevant to everything the construction industry is now striving for. Reading any architectural journal at the moment you appreciate that everything we are learning will be vital for the future growth of the profession.”
Matthew Wilkins

“The EDB master program gives me an understanding of a comfortable and healthy built environment. The combination of theoretical knowledge module and practical application module enables me to have a more comprehensive understanding of passive architectural design and mixed architectural design, as well as various forms of passive design techniques. The workshop on low-carbon buildings and carbon footprint in the curriculum made me feel the impact of people’s lifestyle on global climate change and understood the importance of environmental protection. As a person with architectural background, I have been more determined in the future development prospects of green building. As an international student, language is the biggest challenge. Nevertheless, the amiable lecturers and professors will listen patiently to our every problem and provide help for students’ study and life.”
Xue Yang

Regain building - example of environmental design in buildings

MSc Environmental Design of Buildings

Gain knowledge and expertise to specialise in the design of comfortable and healthy…

10 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

CAUKIN Workshop

A workshop for EDB, MEGA and MAAD students in collaboration with CAUKIN studio. This was…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Environmental Design Application Module

Façade study for a day lounge in a residential care home for dependent…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Investigation of built environment

This module focuses on the introduction of methods and techniques by which building…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Student Life – Field Trips and Study Groups

Navarra University (Spain) – March 2020 The study trip in Spain is a…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020

Passive Design Module

Passive design is an approach to environmental design in which emphasis is given…

8 July 2020 - 15 July 2020
examples of student work

Environmental Design Practice Module

This module is the opportunity to apply learning to a realistic environmental design…

30 June 2020 - 15 July 2020
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